Tata group plans to open 30 more Gateway Hotels by 2015

Thu, Nov 19, 2009



Tata group-promoted Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) is planning to
 open 30 more hotels of its mid-segment premium brand ‘
The Gateway Hotel’ chain by 2015, a senior company official said

At present, there are 20 Gateway Hotels across the country.

“This is our upscale chain. We are planning to open 13 hotels
by 2012 and then scale-up operations to 50 by 2015 across the
country,” Gateway Hotel Director (Operations) Monica
 Lakhmana told on the sidelines of a conference here.

The Gateway Hotels are positioned above IHCL’s economy
brand ‘Ginger’ and below the Residency and Taj brands and
would cater to a pan-India network of hotels and resorts
offering all key services at competitive prices.

“We are looking at Tier II and other smaller cities as they
are growing and also plan to expand in places that attract
more tourists,” she said.

Of the 20 hotels under this brand, 16 hotels belong to IHCL
and were rechristened as Gateway Hotel. However, the other
 four were new constructions.

On the investment part, Lakhmana said the new hotels would
 be run on the management contract model in which private
developers would invest and build hotels on Gateway’s
prototype and brand and later IHCL would purchase the
same from them.

However, she refused to divulge the revenue-sharing pattern.

Gateway has presence in Agra, Bangalore, Calicut, Chikmagalur,
Coonoor, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Madurai, Mangalore, Nasik, Sasan Gir,
 Surat, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Vishakhapatnam and
Jodhpur. Two more will come up at Chennai and New Delhi in
June next year.

Jalandhar, Mysore, Navi Mumbai, Raipur and Gondia are the next
destinations in the pipeline.